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Neocons to Trump Voters: Drop Dead!

Oh dear. Neoconservative writer Bret Stephens has gotten himself into a slap fight with radio host Sean Hannity. After Hannity pre-blamed Republican leaders in the event that Donald Trump loses the election, Stephens took to Twitter where hecrowned Hannity “Fox News’ dumbest anchor.” Hannity then rejoined that Stephens is a “dumbass.” If you’re not familiar with the combatants, one is a star-spangled vitriol merchant who keeps his audience in thrall with simplistic us-versus-them rhetoric and has at best a cartoonish understanding of foreign policy. The other is a nationally syndicated radio host.

Although the author is right about Stephens, nowhere is there an actual analysis of Trump’s foreign policy positions. For the most part, I find these positions sensible although Trump could help himself by refining them further. However, the absence of rational analysis is glaring and inexcusable

dance…dancetotheradio

Double edged sword.
In Canada, the opposition leader is usually loathe to flesh out policy positions too close to an election.
The governing party tends to steal their ideas.

V10_Rob

With the added bonus that the first Tory leader to stick their head up will be excoriated as “The Canadian Trump” (queue ominous music sting).

V10_Rob

If Trump loses, even if by 0.1%, it will trumpeted as a resounding repudiation of any policy he has remotely touched upon. That’s the part that irks me.

The smart thing to do would be to refine and flesh-out his platform into clear programs and have someone a little more focused and diplomatic (just a little, if Trump’s at 10, dial it down to 8) to pitch it and stay on message.

Instead, the right in North America will double down on imitating the left and wondering why it’s not working.

G

I want Trump to win – period.
But if he is to lose then I want it to be a razor thin, supreme court decided loss with judicial recounts in many states decided by Democrat judges.

If the whole crappy system is going to blow up then that could be what ignites the fuse.
The elites on both sides need a serious ass kicking and a questionable Trump loss could be just what brings that about.

dance…dancetotheradio

He’s going to win.
He thinks he can get fifty states and he goes to all of them to make his case.
Fifteen thousand people show up to his rallies and Clinton can’t fill a phone booth.

I’m waiting to see what FOX is going to do with Sean Hannity, the only actual conservative that has ever had a regular FOX slot.

Hard Little Machine

This is the problem with the Ben Shapiro contingent. They’d rather lose than compromise. Just like the progressives from 2000-2008. And then they will have the gall to complain about all the heavy lifting everyone else does because it doesn’t meet their standards.

All I can say is that the first one of them who moans and complains about Hillary in a fit buyers’ remorse should be shot.